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Climate Activists Plan Drone Protest to Halt Heathrow Expansion

  • Heathrow Pause says it will fly craft near airport Sept. 13
  • Group aims to draw attention to impact of Heathrow expansion

Photographer: Matthew Lloyd/Bloomberg

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Climate activists plan to fly toy drones near London’s Heathrow airport next month, as they seek to draw attention to a planned expansion and its impact on greenhouse gases.

The group, Heathrow Pause, will fly the drones inside an exclusion zone surrounding Europe’s busiest airport starting Sept. 13, it said in a statement on its website. Drones are banned within 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) of airports in the U.K.